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Give the OP a break. This was pretty interesting to see. Maybe not so much for what it IS, but for what it will be someday. With enough development, this kind of interaction could help keep people sane on long voyages.

Was the music added in afterwards, or do you actually get to pick your own entry song? Either way, wow... I might have to check this out. Looks downright sandboxy, if you can actually dress your wrestler in a survival suit.

Still trying to determine when my first big storm was. It had a huge impact on me, because it was the event that got me interested in meteorology, AND got me watching the Weather Channel nearly ALL the time, which... for an ADHD pre-teen, is quite an accomplishment. From the research I've been able to do, it was in 1989, probably in July, and a MASSIVE lightning storm rolled through my area and then went into NYC. It was significant enough that TWC had video footage of the storm. Lightning bolts literally every second, for up to 15 minutes in the dark, with the power out. Freaking incredible. Even now, the thought of how much electrical energy that was discharged in that event is mind-boggling.

@_@... an orbital drydock? Seriously?

Being able to experiment in the lab could be pretty cool though. It wouldn't have to rely on twitch skills though. It could just be a case of trying different things to see what works. Heck, for some reason I've always wanted to actually see inside the goo canister during the experiment. Just for the sake of having something more tangible than just getting a text message. But no, the kind of increases to the complexity of science gathering that I had in my mind, wouldn't make it feel like a metagame. Gosh, maybe I should just do a mock video one of these days, instead of trying to explain it in text. Maybe people would start to 'feel' it then.

Actually, one thing that really worries me about modern tech is that it will be impossible to write a good adventure anymore. The communication age is doing things that make 1984 look like a joke. The Empire wouldn't even need to put a tracking device on the Millennium Falcon to know what planet it went to. John Connor resistance against the machines would've been put down before it even started, because micro-drones with recording devices would've been everywhere, as inconspicuous as a fly on the wall. Futuristic warfare probably won't even have a human element. At least not one anymore interesting than some guy in a bunker operating an army like some kind of IRL RTS game. Seriously, even now, it seems like anything would have to take place exactly where all modern horrors do, in a cell phone dead zone. Think of any classic story, even on that's only a decade old or more. Goonies would've been over in five seconds if it had taken place today. I think we're going to be seeing a very common "the spy satellites were broken that day" trope very soon. Particularly in response to tropes 5 & 6, Katanas/Martial Arts. Combat is only going to become more dull as time goes on. Sure, you could make it more about strategy than action, in order to keep it interesting, but that won't attract the majority of viewers. As a result, filmmakers are more and more often required to pretend that common sense doesn't exist, in order to get something to remain cool.

I've said numerous times that each world should have mysteries, that require unique ways of solving them. Not to the point of making KSP a puzzle game, but it would make research more involved than just 'land and bring back.' I even made a thread about it a while back, but it fell on deaf ears. In fact, just about EVERY thread I've seen posted about this very topic, gets very few replies.

Hard to tell in this thread, really. The OP's position on the whole thing is even more 'gung ho' than the anything the Kerbals would try.

Lajos, google "charging the mushroom cloud."

Yeah, good luck with getting away with that now. Of course, if someone is cool with submitting to whatever they're being tested for, I'm not going to say they can't. I somehow doubt we'd get the same consent from critters on another planet. And before you go comparing it to animal testing, we do that in a LAB. If we want to know what the Andromeda Strain does to a mouse, we can do it under controlled conditions. We don't try it by releasing it into an entire population and risking mass extinction. Ultimately, if there's something out there, we can learn a LOT more by studying THEM, than we can by throwing germs at an alien world.

*jots down on a pad* 9/10 times, humans seem to explode when strapped to a device that explodes. Alright, we're done with this one. Bring in the next batch of subjects, and the acid.

MirrorMoon? http://store.steampowered.com/app/231310/ Puzzle game, space exploration, minimalist like Race the Sun.

If there's a target world that an extremophile can live on, then it stands to reason that something might already be living there. How about we be nice and NOT launch a bio-weapon at them? It'll have their immune systems screaming a great big "WTF?!" Recommended reading

I swear I had a storybook about woodland animals trying to go into space, and there was a picture that looked almost exactly like this. That's going to drive me crazy now trying to figure out what it was. I think the mouse may be smarter than the rabbits. Looks like he was going to be riding shotgun and chickened out at the last minute. It also gives me a slight chuckle that they gave the mouse a red coat. It makes me think of the one in Dumbo, who helped an elephant achieve an equally absurd method of gravity-defiance.

The newest version of the engine supports multicore, or so I heard. So hopefully this problem will remedy itself soon enough.

Point taken. Inertia is quite probably the most insulted thing in movies. And while I don't really care when I see an X-Wing doing dogfight moves in space, I get really cranky when I see a Space Shuttle do it.

Finally loaded it at a time when it's working. Pretty sweet. They really need to cut down the exposure on a couple of those cameras though.

Sometimes things are just so blatantly off though that somebody deserves to get backhanded for it. It doesn't take a scientist to grasp centripetal force. All you need is to get on one of those little kid-powered carousels for a few seconds to know that when something spins, you're going to get pushed away from the center of rotation (especially if you're one of the unlucky people who's hand slipped off the rail and got sent flying).

Has anyone been using NASA's eyes to track Rosetta? Shifting time forward, it seemed to 'collide' with the comet in May, even though the actual rendezvous isn't expected to happen until sometime in August?

So yeah, first contribution... Armageddon. Shuttles docking with the Russian station, WHILE IT'S SPINNING. *headdesk*

Everything wrong with space movies? KSP forums is going to need its DB-server space doubled.

Do gravity gradients actually work in KSP? I never would've thought the base physics was actually that complex.

This. If we managed to throw away our differences and get rid of our predatory society, the colonization of space would become a cakewalk by comparison. All that is needed is to stop caring about how much it costs (because "cost" in a financial sense will probably not even be a factor anymore).

Same as we see on Earth, but without the twinkling.

Umm... no. Moon are satellites, but that doesn't mean all satellite are moons. If they were, then Earth would have upwards of a thousand moons.